This page provides you examples, suggestions, and resources for determining the "how well" part of your professional learning activity. You can use the Table of Contents to quickly find what you need.
"Look Fors"
What “Look Fors” will be shared with Principals and others so they can look for evidence that participants’ learning is transferred into classroom practice? This connects to the Monitoring and Follow Up section of the PLAN template. Teachers have to actually try what they've learned for student achievement to improve. There is an old adage, "Nothing changes if nothing changes." Teachers need to change their current practices in order for improvement to occur. Suggestions: "Look for increased use of..." "Ask teachers to show you... "
Provide specific strategies or skills for principals and others to look for as evidence of teachers applying what they've learned. Examples: graphic organizers, math tasks, accountable talk, student pairing, student grouping, intervention strategies, manipulatives, differentiated assignments, higher level questions, constructed response assessments, performance assessments, etc.
Follow Up
As part of your PLA, try to provide participants with actionable steps to incorporate their new learning into classroom practices. If appropriate, provide them a timeline.
Evidence
If you cannot personally visit with teachers to see evidence of their learning, you may request that they provide artifacts. You can have a face to face follow up session to which they bring student work samples or other artifacts to share. You may request that they upload documents as evidence. You may mark attendance but withhold credit for the professional learning activity until the participants provide the required evidence of their learning. If you do so, make sure you have written that in the class notes on PLAN.
Table of Contents
"Look Fors"
What “Look Fors” will be shared with Principals and others so they can look for evidence that participants’ learning is transferred into classroom practice? This connects to the Monitoring and Follow Up section of the PLAN template. Teachers have to actually try what they've learned for student achievement to improve. There is an old adage, "Nothing changes if nothing changes." Teachers need to change their current practices in order for improvement to occur.Suggestions:
"Look for increased use of..."
"Ask teachers to show you... "
Provide specific strategies or skills for principals and others to look for as evidence of teachers applying what they've learned.
Examples: graphic organizers, math tasks, accountable talk, student pairing, student grouping, intervention strategies, manipulatives, differentiated assignments, higher level questions, constructed response assessments, performance assessments, etc.
Follow Up
As part of your PLA, try to provide participants with actionable steps to incorporate their new learning into classroom practices. If appropriate, provide them a timeline.Evidence
If you cannot personally visit with teachers to see evidence of their learning, you may request that they provide artifacts. You can have a face to face follow up session to which they bring student work samples or other artifacts to share. You may request that they upload documents as evidence. You may mark attendance but withhold credit for the professional learning activity until the participants provide the required evidence of their learning. If you do so, make sure you have written that in the class notes on PLAN.